Twitter Fights, Tea Cups, and Chia Pets

We respect and value the social media editors who share the links that make our job easier. But sometimes, we have no idea what they are talking about. After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorites.

We're a few laptop mounted flamethrowers from the Twitter spat becoming the unholy blood sport of the future that The Running Man and Rollerball predicted would be coming down the pike. Though we really do need to get moving on building cavernous underground arenas for it so the public can come out and watch.

We'd say he should be careful about notching up the rhetoric too quickly, but it's like they say: those who don't learn their history history are doomed to repeat it, or write extensively about alternate history.

News reports are focusing on the Germanwings pilot's possible depression, following a familiar script in the wake of mass killings. But the evidence shows violence is extremely rare among the mentally ill.